Alba Sánchez Vélez

Engineering, Entrepreneurship, and Technologyin Madrid, España

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I spent three years working for BEST - Board of European Students of Technology. The biggest European student union, founded in 1989 and present in 33 countries, in a total of 95 local BEST groups. I trained, lead and managed our local group through all our challenges, and provided communication, cooperation and exchange possibilities for students all over Europe.

In my current job in the Education and DIY Product Department at BQ, our goal is to change people from being mere consumers of technology to become creators of their own solutions and products. We want to share, help people understand technology, encourage them to use it and inspire them to develop it. We are firmly convinced that technology can help improve the world, make it fairer and more honest. And the way to reach that, is education. As Paulo Freire stated, "Education doesn't change the world. Education changes people. People change the world". And that is our goal.

I believe in the end you only regret those things you never dare to do. That is why I have lived in a Brazilian favela for a year, rode my bike through the mountains sleeping under the open sky, been into the Amazonian jungle with a hammock as a house, got lost in an unspoiled island and found a boat where I lived for two weeks, and just lived my latest adventure: walking all around Myanmar and meditate in their Buddhist Temples. Living my life to the fullest, because in the end you realize there are no answers, just stories.